From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751506AbdKLTV4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Nov 2017 14:21:56 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([65.50.211.133]:40930 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751418AbdKLTVy (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Nov 2017 14:21:54 -0500 To: LKML , Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Sam Ravnborg From: Randy Dunlap Subject: [PATCH] modpost: detect modules without a MODULE_LICENSE Message-ID: Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 11:21:45 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Randy Dunlap Partially revert commit 2fa365682943 (kbuild: soften MODULE_LICENSE check) so that modpost detects modules that do not have a MODULE_LICENSE. Sam's commit also changed the fatal error to a warning, which I am leaving as is. This gives advance notice of when a module has no license and will taint the kernel if the module is loaded. This produces the following warnings on x86_64 allmodconfig: MODPOST 6520 modules WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in drivers/auxdisplay/img-ascii-lcd.o WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in drivers/gpio/gpio-ath79.o WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in drivers/gpio/gpio-iop.o WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in drivers/iio/accel/kxsd9-i2c.o WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in drivers/iio/adc/qcom-vadc-common.o WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in drivers/media/platform/mtk-vcodec/mtk-vcodec-common.o WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in drivers/media/platform/soc_camera/soc_scale_crop.o WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in drivers/mtd/nand/denali_pci.o WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in drivers/net/phy/cortina.o WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in drivers/pinctrl/pxa/pinctrl-pxa2xx.o WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in drivers/power/reset/zx-reboot.o WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in drivers/rpmsg/qcom_glink_native.o WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_atmio.o WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in net/9p/9pnet_xen.o WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in sound/soc/codecs/snd-soc-pcm512x-spi.o Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: Sam Ravnborg --- scripts/mod/modpost.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- lnx-414-rc8.orig/scripts/mod/modpost.c +++ lnx-414-rc8/scripts/mod/modpost.c @@ -1963,7 +1963,7 @@ static void read_symbols(char *modname) } license = get_modinfo(info.modinfo, info.modinfo_len, "license"); - if (info.modinfo && !license && !is_vmlinux(modname)) + if (!license && !is_vmlinux(modname)) warn("modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in %s\n" "see include/linux/module.h for " "more information\n", modname);